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Among the most dynamic Aboriginal peoples in western Canada today are the Ojibwa, who have played an especially vital role in the development of an Aboriginal political voice at both levels of government. Yet, they are relative newcomers to the region, occupying the parkland and prairies only since the end of the 18th century. This work traces the origins of the western Ojibwa, their adaptations to the West, and the ways in which they have cop...

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Laura Peers is interested in the meanings thatheritage objects hold for Indigenous peoples today and in relationshipsbetween museums and Indigenous peoples. Her publications includeMuseums and Source Communities (with Alison K. Brown), "Ceremoniesof Renewal: Visits, Relationships and Healing in the MuseumSpace, " and This Is Our Life: Haida Material Heritage andChanging Museum Practice (with Cara Krmpotich). Alison K.Brown¿s research addresses...

Across North America, hundreds of reconstructed Oliving historyO sites, which traditionally presented history from a primarily European perspective, have hired Native staff in an attempt to communicate a broader view of the past. Playing Ourselves explores this major shift in representation, using detailed observations of five historic sites in the U.S. and Canada to both discuss the theoretical aspects of Native cultural performance and advis...

Peers examines the emergence of the western Ojibwa in the context of the historical forces that acted upon Native people and the spirit, determination, and strategies used to cope with those forces. She bases the work on fur-trade-company and government documents, traders' and missionaries' journals and diaries, letters, reminiscences, as well as ethnographic and archaeological data, material culture, and photographic and art images - many sou...